The new adaptation of Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas by Martin Bourboulon has unveiled a first glimpse of the five-star cast in costume… And we have some doubts.

May we fondly remember The Man in the Iron Mask directed by Randall Wallace in 1998, or that we wince at the gentle carnage of Paul WS Anderson, that even his respectable cast could not save, The three Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas will be passed under many feathers and in front of many cameras. It would seem, however, that the cinema is not yet ready to lay down the muskets or the rapiers of our noble heroes.also return to the bosom of their native hexagon.

After having maintained the mystery since the announcement of its five-star casting last February, the Pathé studios, which stimulated this new adaptation made in France, had since been careful not to communicate more. Directed by Martin Bourboulon, (the filmmaker of the recent biopic eiffel) the forthcoming diptych named The Three Musketeers Part 1: “D’Artagnan” and The Three Musketeers – Milady has since been unveiled in a first preview on the cover of First :

The mischievous gaze, the feather filed in the hat, the high boots, the leather on the shoulders, and more rimmel under the eyes or jewels on the belt than Jack Sparrow, the future performers of Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmaï), Aramis (Romain Duris) and D’Artagnan (François Civil) proudly show off their lighting habits. As for Eva Green, who will play the formidable enemy of the musketeers, Milady de Winter, to whom the second part is offered, this one benefits from its own poster that it invests quite naturally with its magnetic charisma.

If Vincent Cassel’s dry straw wig and false mustache have softened some inquisitive eyebrowsthe costumes seem to have been designed far from the postmodernist and uninhibited reinterpretations from which Anderson’s adaptation suffered, for example, and in fact justified the honorable budget of something 60 million euros does not profit generously from the diptych. At least, we hope so.

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A glimpse of an aesthetic oscillating dangerously between the pirate film and the western (because, who would have believed it, Pirates of the Caribbean and Once upon a Time in the West can rub shoulders), the musketeers here looks more like a nice bunch of bandits ready to plunder the gold louis of the first passer-by than like gentlemen officiating for the royal cavalry.

Enough to wait and maintain the mystery between now and April 5, 2023announced release date of the first installment of this next spectacular experience, which will be followed by Three Musketeers – Milady the December 13 of the same year.